La degradación del medio ambiente como discriminación por razón de la edad
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https://doi.org/10.14422/icade.i100.y2017.003Keywords:
anti-discrimination law, environmental law, intergenerational equity, age discrimination, climate litigation, Urgenda caseAbstract
This paper argues that anti-age-discrimination law can be used in environmental litigation to combat environmental degradation, including climate inaction. This claim is premised on the possibility of a cohortal reading of anti-agediscrimination law, allowing to challenge discriminatory environmental degradation between generations. Such a cohortal reading received implicit legal support e.g. in the 2012 Commission v. Hungary ECJ case. We specify the personal and material scope conditions under which this strategy could be legally successful.
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